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- Kinkaishu
Toshi goto ni aki no wakare wa amata aredo kyō no kururu zo wabishikarikeru
Every year I have parted with autumn many times, and yet this day's darkening into evening is the loneliest of all.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Mushi no ne mo honoka ni narinu hanasusuki aki no sueba ni shimo ya okuramu
Even the insects' voices have grown faint—is frost now settling on the leaf-tips of the pampas grass at autumn's end?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aki fukami susono no makuzu karegare ni uramuru kaze no oto nomi zo suru
Autumn has deepened, and the kudzu on the mountain's skirts withers away—only the sound of the wind is heard, turning back the leaves as if in reproach.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Akihagi no shitaba no momiji utsuroinu nagatsuki no yo no kaze no samusa ni
The reddened lower leaves of the autumn bush clover have faded, in the cold of the wind on nights of the ninth month.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Momijiba wa michi mo naki made chirishikinu waga yado o tou hito shi nakereba
The autumn leaves have fallen so thick that the path has disappeared—for no one comes to visit my house.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Konoha chiru aki no yamabe wa ukarikeri taede ya shika no hitori nakuramu
The autumn hillsides where the leaves are falling are so wretched—is that why the stag cries alone, unable to bear it?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Hatsuseyama kyō o kagiri to nagametsutsu iriai no kane ni aki zo kurenuru
Gazing at Mount Hatsuse, thinking that today is the last day, I hear the evening bell—and with it, autumn has come to its end.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aki wa inu kaze ni ko no ha wa chirihatete yama sabishikaru fuyu wa kinikeri
Autumn has gone. The wind has stripped the trees of every leaf, and winter has come, leaving the mountains desolate.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ko no ha chiri aki mo kurenishi kataoka no sabishiki mori ni fuyu wa kinikeri
The leaves have fallen and autumn has come to its end; into the lonely forest of Kataoka, winter has arrived.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yūzukuyo sawabe ni tateru ashitazu no naku ne kanashiki fuyu wa kinikeri
On a night of the evening moon, the cranes standing by the marsh cry out so sadly—winter has come.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Chiritsumoru ko no ha kuchinishi tanimizu mo kōri ni tozuru fuyu wa kinikeri
Even the valley stream, where fallen leaves have piled up and rotted away, is now sealed in ice—winter has come.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Haru to ii natsu to sugushite akikaze no fukiage no hama ni fuyu wa kinikeri
Spring I called it, then summer I passed through, and now at Fukiage Beach, where the autumn wind blew high, winter has arrived.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yoshinogawa momijiba nagaru taki no ue no mifune no yama ni arashi fukurashi
Crimson leaves come drifting down the Yoshino River; on Mount Mifune above the falls, a storm must be blowing.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Hatsushigure furinishi hi yori kannabi no mori no kozue zo iro masariyuku
Ever since the day the first winter shower fell, the treetops in the sacred grove of Kannabi have been deepening in color.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Mimuroyama momiji chirurashi kannazuki tatsuta no kawa ni nishiki orikaku
On Mount Mimuro the crimson leaves must be falling; now in the tenth month, a brocade is woven across the Tatsuta River.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kannazuki shigure fureba ka narayama no nara no hagashiwa kaze ni utsurou
Is it because the showers have fallen in the tenth month? On the hills of Nara, the broad oak leaves are fading and scattering in the wind.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo